No, the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT caused the minimum wage and have used whatever excuse they can to persuade you it is needed. With you, they have succeeded. The Left loves problems, either made-up or real, because every perceived “problem” is an opportunity for more government.
Your argument is based on the same negative attitudes as socialism - government and socialist programs first, people, who are a liability to government and socialist support, second.
That is NOT the values of America as founded and as existed until recently. As Reagan said, once people understand the choice they have between freedom versus coercive government interference in their lives, they will choose freedom (GOP when it is clearly for less government rather than the DEMOgoguebureauCRATS. When the GOP is not standing against unconstitutional government, then there is little difference between the parties and it doesn’t matter who they vote for).
Reagan explained in simple terms that freedom was simply the opportunity for everyone to carve out a life as they saw fit for themselves and their families without distant bureaucrats telling them what they can and can’t do. Once people of all ilks and persuasions saw that freedom was in their best interests, they voted for Reagan.
Your socialist-based arguments failed in the past and fail now. To be the land of the free you must once again be the home of the brave, not the home of government controls.
Again, it’s astonishing how so many so-called “conservatives” neither understand nor believe in freedom, the very bedrock of America and American values.
Sorry, the $15 minimum wage in Seattle was enacted by Seattle voters, who are close to 20% foreign born, and close to 40% non-white.
I did not vote for it.
But, I do get a very satisfying laugh when the millions of cheap foreign laborers you started importing 30 years ago go to the polls and vote themselves a raise.
Re: “Once people of all ilks and persuasions saw that freedom was in their best interests, they voted for Reagan.”
Time for a political history lesson, Jim.
In 1984, when Reagan won his landslide re-election, 66% of Hispanics voted AGAINST Reagan, and 91% of Blacks voted AGAINST Reagan!
Re: “ Again, it’s astonishing how so many so-called “conservatives” neither understand nor believe in freedom...”
It is also astonishing how even more Conservatives - like you - refuse to admit that 30 years of massive legal immigration have done terrible damage to our economy and may have done irreparable damage to our political system.